Already a member?
Sign in
Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy!
Discussion Forum
- Most Recent
- Most Active
- Keyword Tag Groups
iSCSI
???keywordTags???
???noTags???
Posting...
Note: You can enter up to [REMCHARS] additional characters.
Did you know you can edit the content of this page by clicking EasyEdit?
Did you know you can edit the content of this page by clicking EasyEdit?
| Started By | Thread Subject | Replies | Last Post | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell-Tony_A | Layer 2 Networks and EqualLogic SANs | 4 | Aug 1 2008, 11:08 AM EDT by Dell-Tony_A | |||
 |
Thread started: Jul 31 2008, 5:38 PM EDT
Watch
One of the most important steps in planning for an iSCSI SAN is properly determining the size of the SAN solution required then sizing the network infrastructure appropriately to allow for current AND future growth. I am currently working a whitepaper that will be released soon that looks at Layer 2 switches such as the PowerConnect 54xx Series and helps in determining if a layer 2 network solution (and the PC54xx in particular) can handle a SAN of the size you are looking at.
How many ports does it take to actually implement an EqualLogic SAN? Working with the Dell EqualLogic engineering team in Nashua and with the PowerConnect team here in Round Rock, I came up with a quick formula to determine the number of ports you need: (([#Arrays]x 6) + ([# hosts]x 2) + ([#Active PSArray Ports] x 2)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 For the details you will have to wait for the full paper, but thought you might find this of use.
4
out of
4 found this valuable.
Do you find this valuable?
Do you?
Keyword tags:
EqualLogic
iSCSI
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
| SeanO'Brien | MD3000i Performance | 6 | Jul 30 2008, 10:35 AM EDT by todd_muirhead | |||
 |
Thread started: Jul 21 2008, 2:57 PM EDT
Watch
I got this working, but I did have to change the command:
performanceStats file=\"c"\\md3000iPerfStats.csv\";" to read: performanceStats file=\"c":\md3000iPerfStats.csv\";" ----> (Notice the ":" after the c" instead of the extra "\") Also, just for others that might run this... If you run the 250 iterations as show in the above command, it may take a while... I changed it to 20 just to make sure it was doing something... Finally I got the "completed successfully" message after about 4 - 5 minutes... Thanks again Scott for the info... --Sean
1
out of
1 found this valuable.
Do you find this valuable?
Do you?
Keyword tags:
iscsi
md3000i
performance
scripting
smcli
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
| brian_summers | iSCSI Enabled NICs | 7 | Jul 18 2008, 1:13 PM EDT by todd_muirhead | |||
 |
Thread started: Jul 16 2008, 5:40 PM EDT
Watch
Hey guys,
On our rev III 9th gen servers we now have an option for the onboard NICs to be "iSCSI enabled". Can someone reply with 1) what this is, an 2) what this is not? It seems to be an alternative to an iSCSI HBA. But I'm getting mixed info on exactly what functionality this adds to the onboard NICS :-( --Brian
3
out of
3 found this valuable.
Do you find this valuable?
Do you?
Keyword tags:
CIFS
Dell/EMC
Fibre Channel
iscsi
Nas
PowerVault
Storage
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
| todd_muirhead | Performance Monitoring of MD3000i from Linux | 6 | Jul 15 2008, 12:16 PM EDT by todd_muirhead | |||
 |
Thread started: Jul 3 2008, 12:34 PM EDT
Watch
During the chat Kristoffer had a couple of questions around the MD3000i. One of which was how do you monitor the performance from a Linux system? I checked with a good Linux friend of mine and he recommends the sysstat package (or RPM) which includes iostat.
Anybody else have a recommendation?
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
| theirishguy | iSCSI storage | 7 | Feb 4 2008, 4:19 PM EST by dave_jaffe | |||
 |
Thread started: Oct 10 2007, 5:45 PM EDT
Watch
Hi Dave,
Read a lot of your articles recently and really enjoyed them. I am really interested in the MD3000i storage array device for a possible setup of Exchange 2007 in the future. I like the expansion that it offers (just like in your article....two exchange 2007 servers in CCR setup...database, web etc.). My goal right now is to do the underlying research so I can present this in the near future. What is especially helpful is the price tag on these. Makes it easier selling point and is a lot cheaper than say, using our NetAPP and the peformance is pretty comparable. The Irish Guy
out of
found this valuable.
Do you find this valuable?
Keyword tags:
iscsi
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
| Ekorn | There is a great podcast on iSCSI | 1 | Jul 11 2007, 12:04 PM EDT by todd_muirhead | |||
 |
Thread started: Jul 10 2007, 1:53 PM EDT
Watch
This one was just posted. It priovides a great overview of these issue in under 10 minutes!
http://i.dell.com/images/global/vlog/quicktime/ent_storage_virt_env.mp3
1
out of
1 found this valuable.
Do you find this valuable?
Do you?
Keyword tags:
iscsi
Show Last Reply
|
|||||
